Maybe the cynicism should refer to Yogi Berra's "deja vu all over again" when it comes to news stories that develop most years during the road to the Kentucky Derby.
They are downers. The disclosure of Santa Anita Park trainer Ron Ellis that the Maryland-bred gelding, pre-Derby favorite, Declan's Moon, would be taken off the Triple Crown trail because of an injury.
Declan's Moon, unbeaten thus...
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